Blind Item #3- Old Hollywood Blind

During her brief time in the US, this foreign born entertainer was probably B-list with A-list name recognition

. In her native country, she was probably A+ list. She was also the inspiration for one of the most iconic advertising characters ever. When she first came over to the US to start a new phase of her career, she brought something else with her: a cocaine habit. After she came to Hollywood for the first time, her drug dealer came with her. Between takes, she would go to her dealer who was waiting nearby her dressing room and she had her daily snorts. The cocaine was definitely a factor in her unexpectedly premature death, because she had an underlying heart condition that even her doctor didn't know about.

Know Won…their using Audry to sell candy bars and in the 80's her face was everywhere. I had to go there..Isn't it strange there is no outcry over her " resurrection " as there was for the use of Fred Astaire selling floor sweepers?" Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"…serving us into perpetuity. Grim :-[

Poor Carmen. Her career was destroyed when she didn't put on underwear for her shoot, and when the guy swung her around, her coochie mama showed from under her long skirt, and she was blacklisted from Hollywood. What made Sharon Stones career, destroyed Carmen's.

Steampunk Jazz: I don't claim to speak for anyone else, but I HATE when they use CGI and other trickery to make dead luminaries "endorse" products they've never heard of. There's some perfume ad ("J'Adore" by Dior?) where Charlize Theron is walking in a fashion show with Princess Grace and Marilyn Monroe, and that one offends me immensely, as well.

@JAS I totally agree regarding using dead celebrities. I suppose their estates must have agreed to it … or does their likeness pass into the public domain after a while? If so, the timing on Marilyn would be about right, she died in 1962 which if there's a 50 year expiration would put her image in the public domain in 2012.

But that doesn't explain Princess Grace. She died in 1982 I think.

Maybe those images aren't owned by the stars' estates but by movie companies?

I wish I knew.

But all that advertising does is remind me that Charlize Theron is no Grace Kelly.

Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian who lived there and in the Netherlands till she was 20. She spent three years starting out in the British entertainment industry, but after that she was employed by the Hollywood. She retired to Switzerland in middle age so I don't think of her as in any way British.

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